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    Top tips to stand out as an accountancy candidate on LinkedIn

    Posted on Monday, March 27, 2023 by Amelia Littlejohn — No comments

    Gone are the days when most accountancy jobs would be advertised and candidates would find and apply to the roles of interest. Today, recruiters with accounting opportunities are scouring LinkedIn to find and approach the candidates that are of most interest to them. Which means that it's essential your LinkedIn profile catches the eye of recruiters and potential employers and makes you stand out ...

  • The Banking Scandal That Led To Decades Of Investigation

    Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    There are several important milestones that transformed accountancy and increased the need for forensic accounting jobs , such as the major collapses of Lehman Brothers, WorldCom and Enron. However, one of the strangest and most far-reaching accounting scandals led to decades of litigation around the world, and a massive lawsuit against the Bank of England itself for allowing it to run despite ...

  • How Old Was The Youngest Chartered Accountant?

    Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    Lots of people do not decide what they want to do professionally until their mid-20s, while many change career paths in their 30s, 40, 50s and even 60s. However, one person has known exactly what she wanted to be since she was a young girl, which helped her become the youngest Chartered Accountant in the world. Grace Bayton holds the accolade as she was registered with the Charted Institute of ...

  • Preparing For An Accounting Interview

    Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    If you have the right skills and experience, or if you’ve been in touch with an accountancy recruitment agency , you may find yourself with a list of interviews lined up for a new job in accountancy, but before you can start on your first day at a new job, you'll have to master the interview first. Interviews are a normal part of job hunting and preparing for them can be difficult regardless of ...

  • Why Human Accountants Are Here To Stay

    Posted on Friday, February 10, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    The use of increased technology in various parts of the economy has been a hot potato issue since the days of the Luddites . Not that the ideas have all been negative; far from destroying everyone’s jobs, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes envisaged a world in which we would all just work shorter hours and enjoy lots more leisure time - a view that turned out a touch optimistic. While there ...

  • How The Match King Inspired Forensic Accounting As We Know It

    Posted on Friday, February 3, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — 1 comment

    The field of forensic accounting as we know it today is a relatively recent invention by accounting standards, having been established in the 1940s. Whilst such an important part of accounting today that forensic accounting jobs are a core component of the legitimacy of countless industries, the earliest investigation that could be considered forensic accounting was the case of infamous organised ...

  • HMRC Customer Service Failing Taxpayers

    Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    Accountants will have been in high demand over the last few weeks, as HMRC’s customer service has been called out for failing those who are trying to pay their taxes. January 31st marks the deadline for self-employed people and sole traders to complete their tax returns, but many could be subject to late fines as a result of struggling to get hold of HMRC. According to the Public Accounts ...

  • How One Of The Biggest Accounting Firms Collapsed In A Year

    Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    The world of accounting is built on trust, respect and expertise, which is why so many recruiters look for skilled professionals to take on forensic accounting jobs to ensure that businesses are conducting themselves legally and based on these three principles. What can happen if an auditing and accounting firm do not follow these core principles is a sudden and acrimonious collapse, perhaps best ...

  • How An Afternoon Tea Shop Was Part Of A Multi-Million Pound Fraud

    Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    There are several trends that emerge when exploring cases of financial fraud so great that they alone create intense demand for forensic accounting jobs , and in a few cases, there are obvious signs that something is amiss. For someone like Bernie Madoff, the numbers simply did not add up from his supposed investment scheme. In the case of Enron, the business model was so deliberately obtuse that ...

  • Employment Rate Remains Lower Than Pre-Covid

    Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    The employment rate in the UK is still lower than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, the latest figures have shown. Earlier this week (November 15th), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its Labour Market Review for November 2022 . The report showed the employment rate for July to September was 75.5 per cent. Although this remains unchanged compared with the previous quarter, it ...

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